I’m interested in robotics as a way to enable new better user interfaces to technology. I envision a world in which we interact with technology the same way we interact with other humans. I loathe sitting at a computer (or typing on my blackberry) to accomplish tasks as simple as writing an email.

Layla Mah studied Computer Science and Graphics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She also studied Mandarin at East China Normal University. Prior to joining the developer relations team at AMD, she developed and optimized game and graphics engines for PC and Console (PS3, XBOX, Xbox 360, and Wii). She has previously worked at Vicarious Visions, Blue Fang Games, and WB Games: Turbine. In her role at AMD, she interfaces with game developers and provides them with the support needed to maximize their engine’s graphics performance and quality on modern DX11 class hardware, and beyond. She also interfaces with hardware architects and leads an internal team responsible for graphics R&D. When not busy working with bleeding edge graphics and game developers, Layla can most often be found in the dance studio, figure skating, or driving around on the race track. Her favorite video games are Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, and Mario Bros Wii.

I’m interested in robotics as a way to enable new better user interfaces to technology. I envision a world in which we interact with technology the same way we interact with other humans. I loathe sitting at a computer (or typing on my blackberry) to accomplish tasks as simple as writing an email.

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What you have inside you is unique. If you are aware enough to recognize that you possess something that you would like to share with the world, then I hope you’ll find the courage to do so. Whatever you do, I hope you won’t let other people make you feel that it’s not worth sharing, […]

I can’t wait to get back on the dance floor. It’s been over two months, which has felt like over two months of being a fish out of water. Amazing that I survived two years away from dance in the past! I was reviewing some of my practice footage from before my injury in March, […]

Sigh.. I’m injured, again :/ I’ve been injured since March 12th. I traveled to Orlando, FL for work, and then traveled to Tampa, FL to visit my family. I scheduled lessons with Alexander Voskalchuk and Veronika Egorova while I was in Tampa. The lessons were very insightful! I was so very excited to integrate everything […]

I’ll have to write several posts to fill in the details about how Iris went from being a bundle of wires on my desk to an actual moving robot, and then various wirelessly programmable evolutions of that moving robot; but, […]

Working with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, effective immediately there’s a pilot release of the Wolfram Language—as well as Mathematica—that will soon be bundled as part of the standard system software for every Raspberry Pi computer. http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2013/11/putting-the-wolfram-language-and-mathematica-on-every-raspberry-pi/ Here’s how one would take this whole technology stack and […]

I just obtained Verizon Fios service again at-last (after a few unbearable weeks on RCN). Verizon sent a nice new gigabit router (Actiontec MI424WR rev 3) to go along with it. So, here’s where things get interesting. I set up the […]

I decided to try to install PocketSphinx for Raspberry Pi for offline speech-to-text processing (until now, I’ve been using the Google Translate APIs for speech-to-text). The short version is that the out-of-the-box experience isn’t very good. It can recognize “Hello” […]

Welcome, anonymous internet reader, to my latest blog creation! ^__^ My blog about dance is at blog.laylamah.com, and I really should start updating that one again, too. Anyway, I decided to create this blog because I’ve recently gotten back into […]